Event Details
LABTA Welcomes
Corporate Partner Of The Month - September 2010
"Building a C-Level Business Case for Travel Management" |
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Guest Speaker(s): | Andrew W. Menkes, CTC, Partnership Travel Consulting, LLC, Founder and CEO | ||||||
Date: | Wednesday, September 15, 2010 | ||||||
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09/10/2010 |
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Registration Time: |
5:30 pm |
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Program Time: |
6:45 PM |
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Address: |
3635 Fashion Way Torrance, CA 90503 | ||||||
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(310) 316-3636 | ||||||
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Event Details:
Join Andy Menkes, Founder& CEO, Partnership Travel Consulting who will share his insights on how to build a business case for your C-Level executives. Travel Management is not universally understood, and the language at the C level does not always align with travel terminology. Andy will take you through the steps of how to build a powerful case and prepare for your face-to-face meeting on the top floor.
Speaker's bio(s):
Andrew W. Menkes, CTC, Partnership Travel Consulting, LLC
Founder and CEO
Mr. Andrew W. Menkes has a 30-year history in the travel industry, with a varied background in Airline, Travel Agency, and Corporate Travel Management.
Andrew started his career with TWA and during a 9-year period he worked in various departments in Passenger Reservations. He served as TWA’s Regional Manager of Interline Sales, and later as the first Regional Manager of Automation Sales during the start of GDS installations at travel agencies and corporate accounts.
Menkes founded and served as CEO of Priority Travel, Inc. a New York based agency with International offices in London and Hong Kong. He also held various regional and executive positions for a number of Mega Travel Agencies.
Menkes was Vice President of Finance and Vice President of Administration for A.C.T.E. (Association of Corporate Travel Executives) and a member of its Executive Committee. He has also served on the Technology Committee of the Corporate Travel Association of New York, as well as on the Board of Directors of the National Business Travel Association (NBTA).
He joined Republic New York Corporation in January of 1997 as its first Vice President of Global Travel Management. Menkes has received recognition as the first Travel Manager to be accredited by ARC as a Corporate Travel Department (CTD). He also pioneered the first corporate-direct (Internet-based) Electronic Ticket purchase with British Airways and initiated a similar web-based program with Jet Blue in the U.S. One year after Republic merged with HSBC, Menkes founded Partnership Travel Consulting (PTC).
